Album art won't display on ipod

I added a bunch of album art to songs, but they only show up in itunes, not on my ipod. Any idea why?

Ok so let me get this straight: to add any artwork, I have to first delete all my songs and then auto-sync the music back into the ipod. Then I manually add whatever artwork I want. And I CANNOT add artwork if the music has not been added via auto-sync (which is strange, since I used to be able to). Is this all correct? The problem with auto-syncing is that I have music scattered across several computers and in many different locations, which makes porting it over to a single location a real pain. That is why I don't like using auto-sync, and that's why I wish there was an easier way to do this.

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